Stats

Lifespan

8-15 yrs

Size

Medium

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Nocturnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Temperate rainforest

Range

North America

Movement

Hopping

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Camouflage

Status

Uncommon

About

A shy, secretive frog of Pacific coastal forests, named for the salmon-red wash on the undersides of its hind legs. It relies on a huge single leap, sometimes over a meter, to vanish into streamside vegetation the instant it's disturbed.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A jelly-coated egg is laid in water and develops over days into an aquatic larva.
2. 2.
   tadpole

   A gilled tadpole swims and grazes on algae, slowly absorbing its tail and growing limbs.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A near-adult amphibian leaves the water with new legs and lungs, smaller than the mature form.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown at adult size, breathing air.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Ranidae

Genus

Rana

Species

Rana aurora